Light switch lottery
Jul. 28th, 2008 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rscI was reminded by a passing remark in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ruralrob's journal of a curious characteristic of the various lodges we stayed at in Tanzania: they had a remarkable array of light switches, some of which controlled the various lights, and some of which controlled whether certain other switches did anything at all. These were mostly either unlabelled or labelled ambiguously. In general, we never did actually figure the system out (it was, of course, different at each lodge), and controlled our lights by trial and error.
It has perhaps not occurred to the people who design these systems that the guest is unlikely to have stayed there before, and isn't going to be there long enough to learn each room's particular obscure system.
ruralrob's journal of a curious characteristic of the various lodges we stayed at in Tanzania: they had a remarkable array of light switches, some of which controlled the various lights, and some of which controlled whether certain other switches did anything at all. These were mostly either unlabelled or labelled ambiguously. In general, we never did actually figure the system out (it was, of course, different at each lodge), and controlled our lights by trial and error.It has perhaps not occurred to the people who design these systems that the guest is unlikely to have stayed there before, and isn't going to be there long enough to learn each room's particular obscure system.
